The Great Wars is a companion history to The Crestfallen Series and, within the world itself, the Holy Text of the Heartlands.

It is the foundational scripture through which the people of the Heartlands understand the gods, humanity’s earliest history, the great conflicts of the past, and the events that shaped the world they inherited. Its stories have been preserved, taught, studied, preached, and interpreted for generations, influencing everything from religious belief and morality to culture, law, tradition, and the way entire kingdoms understand their place in history.

The world of Crestfallen carries the influence of The Great Wars everywhere. Its stories are known long before many people are old enough to fully understand them. Its figures have become symbols of virtue, sacrifice, ambition, failure, and faith. Its accounts of ancient wars and divine intervention form the foundation of how the people of the Heartlands understand their relationship with the gods.

But The Great Wars is more than a collection of religious teachings.

It is also a record of the world’s earliest history.

Across its pages are stories of ancient civilizations, the rise and fall of kingdoms, humanity’s changing relationship with magic, conflicts involving both mortals and the divine, and the people whose actions became so influential that history eventually transformed them into legend.

And like any history preserved for centuries, what appears on the page is not necessarily the same thing as absolute truth.

Events are remembered through the people who recorded them. Complicated individuals become heroes, villains, martyrs, and symbols. Details are forgotten, translated, interpreted, or reshaped by generations trying to understand events that happened long before they were born. Faith and history have become inseparable.

That uncertainty is an important part of the world of Crestfallen.

When reading The Great Wars, you are not simply reading background lore written from an outside perspective. You are reading the same Holy Text that exists within the world itself—the stories its people were raised hearing, the history its scholars debate, and the scripture its faithful turn to when trying to understand the gods and their place beneath them.

Characters throughout The Crestfallen Series may believe every word within its pages, challenge its interpretations, quote its teachings, or question whether the history they inherited tells the entire story.

The Great Wars is therefore both the history of the Heartlands and the story the Heartlands has chosen to remember.

Read the History of the Heartlands Here.